Thomas Moore Quotes on Memory
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Oft, in the stilly night, Ere Slumber's chain has bound me, Fond Memory brings the light Of other days around me; The smiles, the tears, Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimm'd and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken!
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I feel like one, Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed!
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Oh! breathe not his name, let it sleep in the shade, Where cold and unhonour'd his relics are laid.
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And the tear that we shed, though in secret it rolls, Shall long keep his memory green in our souls.
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You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
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There's a bower of roses by Bendemeer's stream, And the nightingale sings round it all the day long; In the time of my childhood 'twas like a sweet dream, To sit in the roses and hear the bird's song.